by Mark Danielewski is very odd - hugely terrifying in a very real sense. I am always very impressed by anything that is actually properly scary, books or film, whatever - it very rarely happens that art can really scare you, but this book horrified me. It makes me shudder thinking about it - totally chilling. Completely rips off Lovecraft, but as as late 20th Century update, and playing with form, it fucking rules. Go buy it now.

...stopped my brain from functioning properly for a while. it's one of those endings/books as a whole that I will always remember reading the end of.

And....At Swim-Two-Birds is what I am reading at the moment! mr. haddock, I am reading it to prepare myself for ulysses which I want to read straight off in one day. which, because I have the attention span of a seagull, probably won't happen. but still, it IS a jolly book.

I have just finished reading Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack, which disturbed me more than The Trial. It is stark and...cruel and very odd. But I recommend it.

hmmmmmmm would be VERY impressed if you pull that off! If you read the notes as you go along (which I found pretty much essential) you're talking about 1000 pages! At Swim is great though isn't it. Don't you just love Sweeney in the Trees? And you know I read somewhere that Finnegans Wake can also be read as Finn (as in Finn Maccool) again is awake. Makes you think.

"House Mother Normal" by B.S. Johnson is very weird. The same events (which are weird enough in themselves) Narrated by the residents of an old people's home, all of whom are suffering from various forms of dementia.